Washington – On Thursday, a trio of federal judges publicly ended the detailed dangers and oppression of the detailed dangers and harassment in recent months after handing over the decisions against the Trump administration or speaking against the attacks on the federal judiciary, including obtaining pizza that was done to be sent from the late son. New Jersey Federal Judge Which was the target of an attack.
Showwew has first talked about the dangers that they have received, and have marked the rare opportunity of the sitting members of the judiciary who respond to the attacks against them.
During his second term, President Trump is a member of his administration and Republican on Capital Hill. Judge Those who have issued rule against the policies of the President. Some GOP MPs have Article filed Against judges, and with the Department of Justice Registered Complaints of judicial misconduct against two jurists sitting in Federal Trial Court in Washington, DC
The event was hosted by an organization for Justice, who wants to support the voice for the judiciary.
US District Judge John McConal, who is the Chief Justice of the Court on Road Island, said he had received six reliable death threats. He described one in which a person was searching for McConel’s house address because he wanted “Smith and Vesan pay me a trip.”
McConel also received a sound mail – played during the stage – to a person in which it was said, “Tell us how we try to accuse him,” and “You have to come to Donald J.” and “You Donald J.”. The caller continued, telling McConal that “your ass is going to jail” and “I wish someone must have killed your ass, someone needs to wipe his donkey ** Raja.”
McConel said that Vismail was one of more than 400 threatened messages that his court received.
“It’s difficult. It was terrible,” he said in the comment during the stage. “I never threatened to put anyone in jail, threatening physical injuries, wishing me to be murdered.”
The judge, who was appointed to the federal bench by former President Barack Obama, said that “I shook my belief in the rule of judicial system and law.”
But McConel said that “the most heartbreaking call” received him, who were from the American marshal, who provided protection for federal judges, informs them that a pizza was transported to his house named after American District Judge Esther Salas’s late son Daniel Andrall. Andral was When he responded to the door at his family’s New Jersey house, he was killed In 2020 and a dissatisfied gunman was shot Targeted salas,
CBS News reports In May, about two dozen judges across the country received unwanted pizza delivery in the name of Andral.
Federal prosecutors have labeled unwanted pizza delivery “pizza doxing” – a spin on “doxing”, in which someone’s address or other personal information is made maliciously public, labeled, often as frightening.
An American martial service official told CBS News in May that the agency – which handles judicial security – is looking into federal judges in all unwanted pizza delivery and taking appropriate steps to address the case. “
US District Judge Robert Lasnik, who presided in Seattle, stated that more than 50 judges have been pizz-dollars in their knowledge, not families and their colleagues of judges. He said that he and his children got a pizza box in the name of Andral after him Gave press interview About this Attack on the judiciary.
“They are looking at it,” Lesnic said about the investigation of the American martial. “But at this day and age it is very difficult to originate these things.”
Lasnik said that his colleagues handling matters related to Mr. Trump’s second term agenda have been bombing with hate mail and hatred email and dangers. “
He said, “This is not only worrying about how to correct this work for a young judge to suddenly discourage, but how I keep my family safe,” he said.
Salas talked about the five -year anniversary of his son’s death, which took place in July 2020, and has increased violent rhetoric in recent months, which has talked about more judges that they have received.
“You know, we are coming out coming out of the spokespersons of the White House, looking out, you know, you know, crazy, left, unconstitutional judges,” said Salas. “And I think we are in fairness, nonpartison, but we have to speak the facts. And the fact that we have political leaders with big social platforms, political leader with power, right? The right? We are deranged and stupids, calling us deranged and stupids, who I think I think there are reasons for judges to come forward today.”
He urged the political leaders of the country to reduce the rhetoric and stop calling the judges “corrupt” and “biased”.
He said, “They are inviting people to harm us, they are inviting the man to call you because now he is ready to use those words against you, because our leaders are stupid and deranged and demons saying,” he said. “Don’t make it personal. Appeal to us in a High Court.”
On the bench in US District Judge John Kafenor, Seattle, he said that he and his wife were “swatted,” Illegal scheme In which people make false emergency calls in an attempt to attract police SWAT teams in public data homes.
Recalling the incident, the judge, appointed by President Ronald Reagan, said that the law enforcement received a call that he had killed his wife and had come to his house with his weapons.
Shortly thereafter, the FBI informed them that there was a bomb in his house, Kafenore said.
“What kind of people do these things do?” He said during the stage. “It is just so disgusting and it is really inexplicable that people will do these things.”
Coughenour said that through his decades as a federal judge, he repeatedly heard jurists in other countries how much the US judiciary was praised.
But he said that it is “surprising for me how much damage has been caused to the reputation of our judiciary, because some political actors feel that they can get some benefits by attacking the freedom of the judiciary and threatening the rule of law.”
Coughenour issued a call for lawyers and fellow judges to speak against the attacks on the judiciary and said “not in this country and not on our clock.”
The attacks go beyond hazards and harassment and also try to punish professionals on judges. McConel said that it was a topic Complaints of judicial misconduct Filed by the US First Legal, a conservative organization run by Stephen Miller, and had two members of the Congress. Miller now serves as the Deputy Chief of Staff of the White House.
Both McConel and Kafenor are overseeing cases that challenge policies implemented by other Trump administration. Cough released an initial prohibition in February Blocking Mr. Trump’s plan To end the birthday citizenship and McConel in March White house freeze blocked On federal money.
The Department of Justice appealed, both decisions and legal proceedings are going on.
Federal judges threatened Pass Increasedly increased In the last six years, according to Marshall. According to the annual report of the Judicial Conference, a vulnerability management program run by the Federal Judiciary which was established after the death of Salas’ son, was served services to over 1,700 judges, 114 retired judges and 235 family members.
In 2022, after a leakage of one Draft Supreme Court Roe v. Reversing Wade, a man from California who was equipped with guns, knives and various equipment, was arrested outside the Maryland’s house in Justice Brett Kavanug. Was man Accused of attempt to murder And requested not to be guilty.
Salas told CBS News that it is not only federal judges who are targeted-state judges are now being pizz-doxed, including Florida and Colorado.
Chief Justice of Colorado Monica Markez has “received so many pizza, which he has stopped counting,” Salas said. Markets cast a decisive vote in December 2023 by Supreme Court of Colorado in 4-3 judgment Disqualify the then candidate Trump From the Colorado ballot before the 2024 election. The court found that Mr. Trump was disqualified for the presidency under Trump Rebellion section of 14th AmendmentA decision that was eventually Reversed by Supreme Court,
Marques Talked about the toll of that vote In November 2024, she knew that she could be the most result of her career. He told how he was late for the court conference that day because “I was vomiting my chambers in the bathroom. I knew what was on the line.”
In Florida, two state judges were targeted with pizza, some in the name of the son of Salas. A 49 -year -old man, Jonathan Mark Miller, has been accused of “fraud use of personal information” for orders targeting judges.
But Salas said that this accountability is rare.
“The state’s bad actors have been caught,” he said, but the threats against federal judges have come from “unknown sources”.
“It bothers me,” Salas said, “because we don’t know who it is doing. We don’t know if it is a group of bad actors, some bad actors. But clearly judges are being targeted, and the message is clear.”
